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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Maaveeran Kittu : Movie Review (Tamil)

Maaveeran Kittu: The Story of a Rebel!

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Suseenthiran’s
Maaveeran Kittu is the story of the ‘Others’ in the society. He begins the story
in 1980’s backdrop and slowly unveils the simmering conflict between the upper
caste and the less privileged in a small village called Pudhur. The lower caste
has Chinnarasu (Pratheepan) as their defender and leader to advocate their
rights. The upper caste lobby is led by a shrewd and cunning Panchayat
President Govindan and an equally brutal Sub Inspector Selvaraj (Harish
Uthaman) who blocks every path of the under privileged that leads to self-reliance,
progress and development.

Chinnarasu
sees a heir to his movement in Kittu, a Dalit topper. For Kittu, Chinnarasu is his mentor, guru and
benefactor and therefore, he happily accepts the suggestion of Chinnarasu to
pursue civil service so that he can become a collector. The new star in the
village becomes a talking point among the upper caste and they hatch plots to
thwart Kittu’s dream to be a collector. Vishnu Vishal as Kittu plays the role
well. He is able to bring forth the feeling, complexity and the desire to excel
as a Dalit very well. Pratheepan as Chinnarasu is a firebrand on screen. At
times it gets confusing to figure out who is the actual hero – Kittu or
Chinnarasu? Probably both!

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Gomathi
(Sri Divya) as the love interest of Kittu is good but could have got some more key
scenes to propel the story forward which doesn’t happen. Therefore, she is
contained to the limited space of romancing, stay in awe of the hero and nothing
else.

Suseenthiran’s
well-intentioned movie is a joy to watch because ‘Maaveeran Kittu’ raises many
pertinent questions that is still relevant and attracts our attention to ponder
on. There are issues of casteism, inter-caste marriage, honor killing, atrocities
against the under privileged and human right violations. The plot is simple and
the story telling is subtle but straight forward. Music by D Imam is good. The lyrics
by Yughabharathi are good and the songs are hummable and pleasant. In the
process of adding more emotion and to make the end intense an untimely song at
the end dampens the climax to some extent which could have been well avoided
because even without that the film could have made an impact.

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The
drawback of the movie is that there too many characters who are introduced but
are not well etched out to stay in the minds of the viewers. The movie could
have also worked upon its editing part that would have made the story telling
more intense and the conflict and the plight of the hapless more moving. The
movie is more about Chinnarasu and his vision and Kittu is merely a part of a
bigger gamble, therefore, the tile could have been dedicated to Chinnarasu. Throughout
the movie, I was trying to find reasons to justify the tile but failed to do
so. Maybe, the climax according to the filmmaker has ample reasons to justify
the title. The movie had the potential to be much better and a crowd puller had
it been executed brilliantly.

Nevertheless,
such socially relevant movies always find a way to reach the viewer’s hearts
and minds easily and so does ‘Maveeran Kittu’ too. It is definitely a onetime
watch.